Organisers of The Headies Awards 2022 edition have disqualified singer, Habeeb Okikiola, professionally known as Portable from the list of nominees for threatening to kill his co-nominees.

The Headies stated that Mr Habeeb Okikiola ( @portablebaeby ) was disqualified from its 15th nominees’ list to further pass a strong message of not condoning reckless and uncouth statements.

“The music industry demands all-round excellence, and it is extremely important for young artists being potential role models to exude professional responsibility, proper decorum and have respect for others.”

According to the organisers, Portable was disqualified due to a series of misdemeanours via his social media platforms.

Recall that on the 25th of May 2022, he threatened to kill, harm or cause harm to the other nominees in the same categories of awards he was nominated for if he does not emerge the winner.” Say The Headies

Vanguard reports that Portable was nominated to contest in the ‘Rookie of the Year’ and ‘Best Street-Hop Artiste’ categories when The Headies unveiled the nominees for its 2022 edition.

Other nominees e in the ‘Rookie of the Year’ category include Av, Fave, Magixx, and Ugocci.

For the second category, he is pitted against Bella Shmurda, Mohbad, Naira Marley, and Goya Menor among others.

Portable the ‘Zazuu’ crooner took to his Instagram page to make a threat to whoever wins the 2022 Headies Award over him.

However, not being pleased with Portable’s statement, organisers of the awards in a swift response said:

“We have notified the Nigeria police of Mr. Okokiola’s actions to fellow nominees. Also, demand for the immediate retraction of the video as well as a written apology to nominees in both categories and to The Headies has been made.

“Should Mr. Okikiola fail to meet our demands, we will not only disqualify him from participating in The Headies but also enforce the instrumentality of the law.

“The general public are hereby implored to disregard the video and stop the dissemination of the same in the public space,” The Headies noted.

Announcing Portable’s disqualification on Instagram Tuesday, the organisers shared the letter below:

Source: VANGUARD

As they should.

Such nuisance should not be celebrated or tolerated.

Illiteracy
Dey
Worry
am

Him
go
soon
prostrate
and
beg

From there show promoters will start avoiding him

Bad character don do this one shege

Yeye

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Useless thing.. he should even be in jail by now but Nigeria is a lawless society

Not like he was going to win it

Ojoro

He was warned....now, the warning has turned to disqualification overnight
Headies keep shifting the goal post

Waste of time. Tinubu has employed him.

T

Make headies committee sha dey sleep with one eye open because 1 million boys abi 1 million fans fit run enter them .

Naso this mumu portable wan use big mouth and mumu behaviour ruin his career.
Anyways na his problem, Akoi Grace noni.

Dj! 1 keg of palmwine and 6 plates of peppersoup
Barman! Play me "Control your tongue" by Kim Kardashian and Tinubu.

He runs his mouth without caution, hence, he deserved the disqualification.

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Serves him right , he should learn to bridle his tongue everything no be by gra gra

We all know HipTV did this for clout but we love it that way!!

Dem give am woto woto

Akoi disqualification...

The guy na werey shaaaa.

No be this same guy dem catch somewhere naked am?

He come here de form one thing one thing

I like Portable, how he has managed to create something for himself but he is too toxic if that’s the right word to use

Don’t get me wrong I’m not tryna be judgy or something but there is an extent to which your toxicity can go.

He is turning into a nuisance in the social media space and I’m afraid his stock could possibly start to fall.

Well who am I to have a say, he is a millionaire and I’m just some dude roaming the internet.

I said what I said

Good riddance

May our tongue not end us.

Serves him right

As it should be. Someone without head don't deserve the Headies.

I think the boy is under a spell.

He shot himself

Little by little. This guy might go back to trenches if he doesn't control his tongue.

The guy na tout sha
Only fit for apc convention

Somebody should speak sense into his head.

This guy is just too local be to a celebrity.

Imagine Portable getting two nominations in his first year, including one that would've pitched him against Bella Shmurda, Mohbad, and Naira Marley, and he ended up throwing everything away. I'm sure the video he made about founding two cult groups was the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Nigerian artistes go from local to national to regional to international but this dude went from local to national and was even making it into becoming a regional artiste before throwing himself back to local.

Olamide and Poco Lee who brought him into limelight have written posts expressing regrets over their actions. He has fought with all his promoters from Kogbagidi to Sam Larry to Ijoba Danku. Months after, he can't find a label and can't set one up either. All he does is to constitute a nuisance and spray 200 naira around.

Portable is his own village people. The same mouth that helps him make money is the same one that will destroy it. Meanwhile his supporters call this "grace". The same supporters who would be the first to laugh at him when he finally falls.

Someone should have some serious words with Portable.